Overview

• Pant, who missed last year's IPL and the 50-over World Cup, has shown promising form in the current IPL season with 398 runs in 11 innings.
• Shivam Dube, also in excellent form, joins Pant in the squad after scoring 350 runs in nine IPL matches.
• Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, confirmed for the squad, are performing well in the IPL, with Kohli leading the run-scorers.
• India's squad includes a strong spin contingent with Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, and Kuldeep Yadav.
• The team begins their World Cup campaign on June 5 against Ireland, with matches against Pakistan and the U.S. also scheduled.